A hit at the Cheshire provincial pronunciation of the ng.
[LEICESTERSHIRE.]
Higham on the hill,
Stoke in the vale;
Wykin for buttermilk,
Hinckley for ale.
[BROCKLEY-HILL.]
No heart can think, nor tongue can tell,
What lies between Brockley-hill and Penny-well.
Brockley-hill lies near Elstree, in Hertfordshire, and Penny-well is the name of a parcel of closes in the neighbourhood. See Stukeley's Itin. Cur. 1776, i. 118. This distich alludes to the quantity of old coins found near those places.
[STANTON DREW.]
Stanton Drew,
A mile from Pensford,
Another from Chue.
A Somersetshire proverb, mentioned by Stukeley, in the work above quoted, ii. 169.